Creative Writing: The Poet in Community Program

The Multi-Faith Centre is home to a unique program for U of T students called The Poet in Community Program. This program offers you space to explore what’s relevant and what matters to you through creative writing.

A Poet in Community workshop usually lasts 1-1.5 hours and isn’t as formal as a class, or as casual as a coffee shop. It’s a facilitated creative learning experience without evaluation. Here, it’s possible to connect the intellectual with the emotional, the spiritual, the physical and the social. The program is led by Poet in Community, Ronna Bloom, who uses creative writing to address the interests, passions and needs of students.

“What do you want to explore through writing? Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” — Walt Whitman

Ronna is a writer, registered psychotherapist (inactive) and author of six books of poetry. Her work has been broadcast on the CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into Bengali, Chinese and Bangla, and shortlisted for several Canadian literary awards.